42

Everyone that knows me, knows that I love baseball. Everybody who knows me well, knows I love the Dodgers! So, going into this movie about an amazing hero in Baseball who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers back in 1947, all of you should know that I would love this movie.

Baseball, like many sports, holds a lot of history and has the potential to teach us about life. The lessons we learn from sports aren't just based on a silly game, because sometimes sports are just a game, afterall. Sometimes we are able to learn how to treat one another and how we can be heroes and 42 teaches us that.

This movie was amazing. The lesson is huge and moving. Before Jackie Robinson joined the Dodgers, He played for the Monarchs, which was a team in the Negro League. Not only did we segregate peeople in bathrooms, schools and buses, but we also segregated on the playing field. There were no African Americans playing in major legue baseball before 1947 and before Jackie Robinson.

The bravery that was needed to step across that racial barrier and play for the Dodgers was huge and Jackie Robinson was very brave. The man who hired him and thought it was time to integrate baseball also was brave and a visonary. Thank heavens these men took that first step.

This movie is powerful and from what I read very accurate in historical detail, although some of it is a little exaggerated as ofen is the case in Hollywood.

This movie is definitely worth your money and time and who knows you might even have your heart lifted and touched.